Paul Houston said he wanted some good to come from the death of Amy, who was struck by an uninsured car driven by Aso Mohammed Ibrahim, an Iraqi Kurd who had no right to be in Britain.

The motorist fled, leaving the girl trapped under the wheels. Six hours later her father had to take the decision to turn of her life support system.

Ibrahim served only two months in jail for driving while disqualified and failing to stop. His asylum bid had been turned down the previous year, but he had not been removed from the country.

Earlier this month, despite a seven-year fight by Mr Houston, the Court of Appeal ruled that the killer driver will be allowed to stay in this country indefinitely, because since the offence he has fathered children here and to throw him out now would breach his "right to a family life".

Mr Houston, 41, said: "If Mr Ibrahim had been deported in 2002, my daughter would still be alive and he would not have been able to manoeuvre himself into a position with children so that he cannot be deported.

"There are questions which have not been answered here, such as how is my daughter's right to life considered in the immigration process and the judicial system as a whole?"

Before last year's general election, David Cameron, then the Leader of the Opposition, personally promised Mr Houston that the Human Rights Act would be replaced with a British Bill of Rights.

Now the grieving father is concerned that whatever reforms emerge through the Coalition will be merely a "PR exercise".

He said: "As our leader Mr Cameron has got to pull his finger out and if he can't do that then maybe he's not the man for the job.

"I will argue that there should be a Human Rights Act which puts the rights of the victim over the criminal.

"So if you take someone else's human rights away then your human rights should be temporarily taken away from you. And when it comes to judgment the victim's rights should be paramount over the criminal's."

Mr Houston is due to meet officials of the UK Border Agency to ask why immigration officials failed to deport Ibrahim before the tragedy.

Speaking at his parents' bungalow in Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, the father said: "I am not driven by anger. It is the frustration of not being heard.

"I know Amy's dead and is not coming back. If some good comes out of this then I can say that Amy did not die for nothing, and she has left behind a gift for the rest of Britain."

A calligraphy poem entitled "Amy" hangs on the wall, made by Mr Houston as a Christmas present for his daughter when she was six years old. "I will always be there for you," it says. "You are my little angel and I love you more than words can say."

Mr Houston said: "'My little angel,' it says. Well, she is now, isn't she? She was a fantastic little girl and that's why it's upsetting that I have not got justice for her.

"It's very hard to be charitable towards Mr Ibrahim when he didn't show my daughter any mercy. I think he only cares for himself and I don't see why we should accommodate people like that.

"It was my short-term goal to get Mr Ibrahim removed from this country but that has not proved possible.

"Now I will campaign for the UKBA to be made more efficient so they have the correct procedures in place, and for the Human Rights Act to be amended so it benefits everybody. I am doing it for Amy."